Web Review, Week 2025-41
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2025-41.
Citizen Protest Halts Chat Control
Tags: tech, law, surveillance
Well done everyone. This bullet was dodged… for now! This kind of fever comes back regularly unfortunately.
In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information
Tags: tech, social-media, rss
Another nice one about the power of RSS and why it’s an important technology.
https://blog.burkert.me/posts/in_praise_of_syndication/
Windows 11 removes all bypass methods for Microsoft account setup, removing local accounts
Tags: tech, windows, surveillance, foss
Probably preaching to the choir here… but if you still got Windows in your life between the end of 10 and what they’re doing to 11, it’s really high time you ditch it. Come over to the Free Software operating systems side. It might require an initial effort but it won’t stab you in the back like this.
Who Owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN Relationships Explained
Tags: tech, vpn, business, privacy
Some relationships here are definitely shady. Be careful who you trust with your traffic.
https://windscribe.com/blog/the-vpn-relationship-map/
Apertus: a fully open, transparent, multilingual language model
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, foss
ETH Zurich keeps making progress on its model. It’s exciting and nice to see an ethical offering develop in that space. It shows that when there is political will it can be treated as proper infrastructure.
WireGuard topologies for self-hosting at home
Tags: tech, networking, vpn, wireguard, self-hosting
Interesting breakdown of a possible organisation for accessing self-hosted hardware at home through wireguard.
https://garrido.io/notes/wireguard-topologies-for-self-hosting-at-home/
UUIDv47 — UUIDv7-in / UUIDv4-out
Tags: tech, uuid, privacy, performance
Interesting idea, trying to bridge the best of both UUID options.
Python 3.14.0
Tags: tech, python, foss
It’s out now, this is a big one with quite a few interesting features. Let’s see how it’s used in practice.
https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3140/
Python 3.14 Is Here. How Fast Is It?
Tags: tech, python, benchmarking, performance
First rough benchmarks for CPython 3.14. It looks like the JIT isn’t giving much improvement on the cases explored, the free threading on the other hand is a clear advantage for multithreaded cases. Of course as usual Pypy is still way faster. That said, like anything else: first measure in your own context before taking any decision.
https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/python-3-14-is-here-how-fast-is-it
C++26: range support for std::optional
Tags: tech, c++, design, api
It’s kind of an unusual design choice… This is subtle, I think I’m still a bit on the fence regarding this one.
https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2025/10/08/cpp26-range-support-for-std-optional
std::ranges may not deliver the performance that you expect
Tags: tech, c++, benchmarking, performance
As usual, you need to measure before you jump to conclusion…
https://lemire.me/blog/2025/10/05/stdranges-may-not-deliver-the-performance-that-you-expect/
Const, Move and RVO
Tags: tech, c++
Reminder that there are a few cases where you might not want your variables declared as const.
https://www.cppstories.com/2017/01/const-move-and-rvo/?m=1
Why we didn’t rewrite our feed handler in Rust
Tags: tech, c++, rust, type-systems
An illustration of why C++ can still be a relevant choice in new code. It all depends on the contraints you have for a given problem.
https://databento.com/blog/why-we-didnt-rewrite-our-feed-handler-in-rust
Cancelling async Rust
Tags: tech, rust, asynchronous
Interesting post which gives plenty of insights on how async Rust is designed and behaves.
https://sunshowers.io/posts/cancelling-async-rust/
A case for learning GPU programming with a compute-first mindset
Tags: tech, gpu, shader, teaching, learning, debugging
An interesting way to approach the topic of GPU programming nowadays. It might indeed make more sense nowadays than reaching for putting pixels on screen as a first objective.
The Single Responsibility Principle
Tags: tech, design, craftsmanship, quality
An explanation about where the SRP comes from and what it really means. It’s very often misunderstood or overlooked.
https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2014/05/08/SingleReponsibilityPrinciple.html
ATDD From the Trenches
Tags: tech, tests, tdd, atdd
A little introductory article about putting an ATDD cycle in place for your development.
https://www.infoq.com/articles/atdd-from-the-trenches/
Programmer Test Principles
Tags: tech, tests, tdd
A bit old but still relevant. Don’t focus on tools or the fashion “du jour”, instead have a set of timeless principles and evaluate your work against them.
https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/programmer-test-principles-d01c064d7934
Concerns about TDD
Tags: tech, tests, tdd, learning, teaching
This is definitely a skill which is hard to teach an learn. When it sticks it brings really nice results though…
https://ronjeffries.com/articles/020-01ff/tdd-issues/
The static risk fallacy
Tags: tech, security, risk
Interesting take. Indeed risks shouldn’t be considered in isolation. They actually compound and that can add up fairly quickly.
https://chrisbeckman.dev/posts/static-risk-fallacy
Products Over Projects
Tags: tech, project-management, product-management, organization
I wouldn’t frame it as always superior (I’d argue the article falls a bit in this trap). Still this can sometimes be an alternative to driving everything purely on project mode. Some organizations would benefit from such a change of perspective other less so.
https://martinfowler.com/articles/products-over-projects.html
Better Agile Adoptions
Tags: tech, agile, team, change, organization, management
I think the Open Agile Adoption ideas have been unfortunately unnoticed. It’s thus hard to tell if it would have been fairly efficient. What’s sure though is that the widespread mandate approach used during the past decade does a disservice to teams.
https://www.infoq.com/articles/open-agile-adoption-1/
How to Reward Agile Teams
Tags: tech, team, hr, economics, project-management
I’m a bit on the fence regarding this article. That being said there’s something I like about it: it’s not always purely about money. It’s also a good reminder that if the reward is in monetary form it’s almost impossible to not somehow alter team dynamics with it.
https://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/blog/how-to-reward-agile-teams
Seeing like a software company
Tags: tech, organization, management
Interesting view… This explains quite well why most organizations have both formal and informal processes. I’m not sure I agree that the informal will always be fought against by management though. I’ve seen clever management which accepts the informal processes as long as it doesn’t harm the organization.
https://www.seangoedecke.com/seeing-like-a-software-company/
Bye for now!